May 26 1352 – 12 Sivan 5112
The City Council in Nuremberg allowed Jews to return to live within the town after they’d been expelled three years previously. Three weeks before the council’s decision, three Jewish representatives appeared before the counselors and declared that they would remit all debts owing to them, would sell all houses held in pawn and would live only where they were explicitly permitted to dwell. The riots in which the Jews had been expelled occurred during an epidemic of plague in the city, in the course of which the local synagogue was razed to the ground and a church, the Frauenkirche, built on its ruins.